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Ad-hoc interactive workshop in Auckland

So Semi-Permanent 2008 is all over and much fun was had. To summarize the event in one word: Inspirational. But a more detailed debrief of the event is coming…

I just wanted to inform any of the interested Auckland people, that The Church, organizers of Semi-Permanent, Joel Gethin-Lewis and myself will be holding a little spontaneous interactive media workshop tomorrow AM. But hurry, places are limited and we can only accept the first 20 people who RSVP. More details on their blog.

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· 2008/08/17 16:53 · 3 Comments

Nokia Friends, generative characters

Am currently preparing myself for my biggest trip of the year to speak at Semipermanent 2008 in Auckland, next Friday evening. This also means I'll have to finish documenting some more projects and their creation process before and so here's one of them…Earlier this year Matt Pyke invited me to help creating a motion graphics piece for Nokia's five superlarge 14.8 x 3.36 meters LED screens at the new Heathrow Terminal 5. The concept was simple enough:
“A procession of diverse characters glide by on a travelator - friends, families, kids, lovers, rugby teams, fat couples, thin models - celebrating the diversity of people seen at Heathrow T5. Every character riding the travelator is unique, using generative software to create an ever-growing population.”

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· 2008/08/05 16:40 · 1 Comment

Advanced Beauty: Enerugii, part II

Advanced Beauty is an ongoing collaborative activity initiated and curated by my friend Matt Pyke of Universal Everything and his brother Simon, sound artist extra-ordinaire, active under the monikers Freefarm/Freeform. Started in late 2006, for the first project both have gathered a group of 18 participants to create a collection of sound sculptures, audio-reactive visual pieces further exploring the related themes of synesthesia, mixing the senses to create interference and so improve the quality of perception, the re-mapping and visual re-interpreting audio - all under the overarching direction of “minimalism” (purism) and the application of new & uncommon processes to realize the pieces.Earlier this year in May, over 1.5 years after inception, all 18 pieces were completed & premièred at Lovebytes 2008 in Sheffield and are now waiting for their release as Blu-ray DVD in their original, pristine HD1080 resolution and 5.1 surround sound later this autumn. Before that though, all pieces will be made available individually as podcast (or via iTunes) and on vimeo every Monday until November, 3rd. This will be followed by a public art commission at the London's Victoria & Albert Museum later that month and various planned showcases around the world throughout the next year. Today (2008-07-21) my contribution to the project went live…

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· 2008/07/21 04:55 · 2 Comments

Faber Finds generative book covers

Print on demand (POD) is becoming more mainstream by the day and new(ish) contenders are popping up everywhere, slowly covering more and more parts of the market. Recently the renowned English publisher Faber & Faber has also joined that field. However, unlike the other players who are largely focused on the self-publishing game, Faber's plans were to bring POD to that part of the market, which due to the traditional ways of the publishing business has ceased to be a market at all: out-of-print books. Faber Finds is the name of said service and has just launched with an initial repertoire of 100+ titles, with more being added all the time.A year ago Faber & Faber commissioned me to help with the design of a software system to generate complete & print ready book covers for their new imprint. The challenge proved to be more of a creative than a technical one, as the task given was to build a “design machine” which would be flexible enough to generate a very large (theoretically infinite) number of unique designs, one for each single book ever printed in this range, within the agreed boundaries set by the art direction(s) of Faber design team. The imprint has currently 4 genres, each with its own slightly varied style and rules I needed to take care of.

Faber Finds collection

Faber Finds collection

Faber Finds collection

Some of the first printed books with the fantastic custom made B-HMMND font
by Michael C. Place @ Wearebuild.

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· 2008/07/11 19:08 · 9 Comments

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